Funk music emerged in the 1960s as a vibrant fusion of soul, jazz, and R&B, marked by its syncopated basslines, groovy rhythms, and an infectious sense of movement. Pioneered by artists like James ...

Let's explore the many ways in which jazz and funk have influenced hip-hop and how their impact continues to be felt to this day.

The beating heart of Athens would not have the same beat without the genesis of jazz music.

If we take a genre such as funk, you only have to listen to how to a master musician, such as guitarist Nile Rodgers, operates. His riff on Daft Punk's Get Lucky is a classic example of a funk riff, ...

It all came together in a matter of hours, according to Eugene musician Frank Visconti, trumpeter and manager with Natsukashii Soul, a brand-new jazz, R&B and funk quintet performing regularly in ...

Audition + apply Our faculty offer a broad array of research specializations that include performance and analysis, theories of rhythm and meter, music-text relations, intertextuality, jazz theory and ...

The Mondavi Center in partnership with The Gorman Museum of Native American Art at UC Davis presents Delbert Anderson, a Diné jazz trumpeter, compose and educator, merging Navajo “spinning songs” with ...

The genre is finding a new generation of global listeners, thanks to record labels like Habibi Funk and parties that showcase it.

Wynton Marsalis on music, Louis Armstrong, and his early funk band days He'll visit San Diego May 18 with "Louis," a silent film with live music event honoring the late, great jazz trumpeter. "I ...

The unique jazz-funk-jam “Organ Fairchild Sound” has been described as a mixture of Soulive, Medeski Martin & Wood, the Grateful Dead, Steely Dan, and the Meters.